It's definitely a culture thing. I do freelance work so I've been part of 4-5 different companies in the past 2 years alone. In one team with 8 team members at

It's definitely a culture thing. I do freelance work so I've been part of 4-5 different companies in the past 2 years alone. In one team with 8 team members at a midsize company consisting of mostly junior devs and the CTO being a scrum/agile supporter, we would have discussions constantly, and features development would be consensus-based and tasks would be broken into tiny parts. One of the juniors had complained that they have too many meetings and suggested a meeting to address this issue (oh, the irony). In another team, we're 5 people, all seniors with different skill sets. We do some agile planning with a simple scrum board, but everyone trusts the others to do their job. There have been days where I was in the office with 2 other devs in the room and I spoke maybe 10 words (I mean that literally) in the whole work day. It could also be a symptom of "nice guy syndrome". I used to be that person. People would not just ask me about project stuff, but maybe the printer is broken. Or WiFi is slow. Or coffee machine needs cleaning. I couldn't do project stuff anymore. With each passing project, I learn how to be less of "that nice guy" towards more of a "that expert guy who will help if it helps the team". And if it's a junior team and everyone keeps asking me tech stuff, I will talk to the tech lead and ask whether or not it would be more sensible to reduce the number of tickets assigned to me and use me more as a coach, doing small workshops and doing pair programming.